[sage-support] Re: how to plot points from xml

2009-03-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mar 5, 4:59 am, compound eye compound...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've got lots of data as numbers in xml files, which I would like to be able to plot hi, a hint additional to robert's method, you can parse files directly: doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(file) Also, i've written a xhtml

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mar 5, 7:35 am, Alex Lara lrodr...@gmail.com wrote: RuntimeError: Unable to start maxima Hi, I've never seen this error before. If you just start sage in the commandline from the directory where the tex files are, can you do symbolic operations? (i.e. works maxima ?) H

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 at 10:08PM -0800, Craig Citro wrote: Do you know the sagetex package? I followed the directions to use the sagetex package, without successful. I tried with the example and I got the following messages: Honestly, I've never used sagetex myself -- I hear it's really

[sage-support] Re: Sage on ASUS Eee PC 901 Intel Atom

2009-03-05 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, I would build from source except I that ASUS does not make it simple to install gcc and make and the like.  Is it possible to build from source from my desktop running 32bit Ubuntu so that it works on Atom Xandros, and if so, how? well, I also have EEE 901 and it's not that hard after

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Lara
Hi Dan, You are totally right. The problem is that Sage can't start maxima. Here is part of the output when I typed sage: var('x k w') (x, k, w) sage: f = x^3 * e^(k*x) * sin(w*x); f --- RuntimeError

[sage-support] Re: Finding the roots of a polynomial

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bob gotw...@gmail.com wrote: I need to find the roots of this polynomial, where are coefficients are in this matrix: coef=matrix([[1],[-1],[-1],[0]]) First, you should construct a polynomial. A matrix of coefficients is not the preferred way to work

[sage-support] Re: Finding the roots of a polynomial

2009-03-05 Thread Bob
Mike, thanks, you da man! On Mar 5, 2:24 pm, Bob gotw...@gmail.com wrote: I need to find the roots of this polynomial, where are coefficients are in this matrix: coef=matrix([[1],[-1],[-1],[0]]) thanks in advance, and apologies if this is posted somewhere else, I have not been able to

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 05:44AM -0800, Alex Lara wrote: Hi Dan, You are totally right. The problem is that Sage can't start maxima. Here is part of the output when I typed sage: var('x k w') (x, k, w) sage: f = x^3 * e^(k*x) * sin(w*x); f

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Lara
Hi Drake, I didn't work. I have to versions of sage (3.1.1 and 3.2.3) running on my laptop. Really I don't have any clue of what's happening. ---Alex. On Mar 5, 4:03 pm, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 05:44AM -0800, Alex Lara wrote: Hi Dan, You are totally right.

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
What operating system and type of computer are you using? Did you install from source or with a binary? -M. Hampton On Mar 5, 9:42 pm, Alex Lara lrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Drake, I didn't work. I have to versions of sage (3.1.1 and 3.2.3) running on my laptop. Really I don't have any

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Lara
Hi Marshall I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, in a laptop Dell inspiron 1420. I installed from source. I have 3.1.1. and 3.2.3. I was checking, maxima does not work at all. I can't do a simple example like: sage: x = var('x') sage: solve(x^2 + 3*x + 2, x) ---Alex On Mar 5, 9:38 pm, Marshall Hampton

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Alex, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Alex Lara lrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marshall I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, in a laptop Dell inspiron 1420. I installed from source. I have 3.1.1. and 3.2.3. I was checking, maxima does not work at all. I can't do a simple example like: sage: x =

[sage-support] Re: Problems using sagetex package

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Lara
On Mar 5, 11:13 pm, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Alex Lara lrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marshall I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, in a laptop Dell inspiron 1420. I installed from source. I have 3.1.1. and 3.2.3. I was checking, maxima does not